The Resource Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan
Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan
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The item Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in George F. Johnson Memorial Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in George F. Johnson Memorial Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever -- a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First United States Edition.
- Extent
- 333 pages
- Note
- "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019"--title page verso.
- Isbn
- 9780385545112
- Label
- Machines like me : and people like you
- Title
- Machines like me
- Title remainder
- and people like you
- Statement of responsibility
- Ian McEwan
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever -- a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McEwan, Ian
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6063.C4
- LC item number
- M33 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Artificial intelligence
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- London (England)
- Label
- Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan
- Note
- "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019"--title page verso.
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1078542365
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First United States Edition.
- Extent
- 333 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385545112
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2018055227
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1078542365
- Label
- Machines like me : and people like you, Ian McEwan
- Note
- "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019"--title page verso.
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1078542365
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First United States Edition.
- Extent
- 333 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385545112
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2018055227
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1078542365
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